“We are leading this race and building a grassroots political revolution,” Steve Hilton, the GOP hopeful, wrote on X. “We will keep fighting to kick out the failed, corrupt Democrat machine and save California!”

Hilton became a naturalized US citizen in 2021 and is a former Fox News contributor.

His campaign has raised $5.7 million in total, a large sum compared with his Democratic counterparts, with the exception of billionaire Tom Steyer, who is self-financing his campaign.

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Hilton’s fundraising is largely credited to more than 30,000 individual donors, according to his campaign. He also loaned $100,000 his own campaign, POLITICO reported.